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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:TBM-3U Avenger
    Last Military Serial:69329 USN
    Construction Number:2068
    Last Civil Registration:N73642
    Compressed ID:General Motors TBM-3U sn 69329 USN...
    Latest Owner or Location:Sanders Aeronautics, Eagles Nest Airport, Ione, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TBM-3 by General Motors.

    1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 69329.

    Converted to a TBM-3U by General Motors.

    Transferred to Utility Squadron 4 (VU-4), NAS Oceana, Virginia Beach, VA.

    1963

    To Reeder Flying SVC, Bruce Meadows Airport, Twinn Falls, ID with new c/r N73642.

    1963

    Operated as fire service #D23.

    From 1980 to 1984

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Twin Falls, ID.

    From March 1981 to 1984

    To Gary Wolverton, Twin Falls, ID keeping c/r N73642.

    October 1986

    To Robert L. Waltrip, Houston, TX with new c/r N700RW.
    Later Galveston, TX.

    October 1986

    Based at Lone Star Flight Museum, Scholes Field, Galveston, TX.
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    5 November 1987

    To Texas Aviation Hall of Fame, Galveston, TX keeping c/r N700RW.

    1988


    Photographer: Dick Phillips Warbird Images Col.
    Notes: Photographed at Breckenridge, TX.

    Markings Applied: RW

    By 1993


    Photographer: Corel Photo CD-ROM 1993

    3 May 2016

    To Charles H. Hainline, Friendswood, TX keeping c/r N700RW.

    16 March 2017

    To DB Aero, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N700RW.

    26 June 2017

    To DB Aero, Wilmington, DE with new c/r N73642.

    Based at Sanders Aeronautics, Eagles Nest Airport, Ione, CA.
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    9 September 2018


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Reno Air Races.

    13 September 2019


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Reno Air Races.

    11 September 2021


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Reno Air Races.

    18 September 2022


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Nation Championship Air Races at the Reno Stead Airport, Reno, NV.

    Circa 23 September 2024


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Central Coast Air Fest in Santa Maria, CA.

    Circa 23 September 2024


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Central Coast Air Fest in Santa Maria, CA.

    17 May 2025


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Peru, IL
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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    American Aviation Historical Society
    American Aviation Historical Society
    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Warbird Information Exchange by Scott Rose
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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